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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Hans Hofmann

String Quartet

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Hans Hofmann

(1880 - 1966)


String Quartet

signed Hans Hofmann and dated 60 (lower right); signed again, titled, dated 1960, and numbered 1022 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

50 ⅛ by 40 ¼ in.   127.3 by 102.2 cm.

Executed in 1960.

Kootz Gallery, New York

Leigh B. and Mary Lasker Block (acquired by 1961)

Kootz Gallery, New York

Raymond and Patsy Nasher, Dallas (acquired by 1963)

Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas

Swanton Investment S.A., Geneva (acquired by 1991)

Acquired from the above in December 1991 by the present owner

New York, Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann, 1961 n.p., illustrated

Nuremberg, Fränkische Galerie am Marientor; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein; Berlin, Kongreßhalle and Munich, Städtische Galerie, Hans Hofmann, 1962-63, no. 79

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Denver, International House; East Lansing, Michigan State University; Akron Art Institute; Bloomington, Indiana Art Museum; Auburn University; Chattanooga, Hunter Museum of American Art; The Carillon, Richmond Artists Association; Elliott Hall, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Athens, Ohio University; Tampa, University of South Florida; Portland Museum of Art; State University of New York College of Education at Oswego; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Towson, Goucher College and Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Hans Hofmann and His Students, 1963-65

Fort Worth Art Museum, Twentieth Century Art From Fort Worth Dallas Collections, 1974, n.p., illustrated

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1976-77, no. 51, p. 20 and p. 89, illustrated

Dallas Museum of Art and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection, 1987-88, no. 93, p. 125 and 202; p. 127, illustrated in color and p. 201, illustrated

Robert Hatch, "At the Tip of Cape Cod," Horizon, Vol. 3, No. 6, July 1961, p. 16; p. 17, illustrated in color (in progress) (with the artist in his Provincetown studio, 1960)

Lawrence Smith, "In the Galleries: Hans Hofmann," Arts 35, no. 7, April 1961, p. 58, illustrated

Sam Hunter, Hans Hofmann, New York, 1963, pl. 134, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 30

Harold Rosenberg, "Hans Hofmann," Vogue, vol. 145, May 1965, no. 9, p. 236

Harold Rosenberg, "The Teaching of Hans Hofmann," Arts Magazine, vol. 45, no. 3, December 1970/January 1971, p. 19, illustrated

Lawrence Campbell, ARTnews, vol. 73, no. 7, November 1974, illustrated in color (on the cover) (in progress) (with the artist in his Provincetown studio, 1960) and p. 5, illustrated (in progress) (with the artist in his Provincetown studio, 1960)

Cynthia Goodman, Hans Hofmann, New York, 1986, p. 87

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Hans Hofmann, 1990-91, p. 10, illustrated (in progress) (with the artist in his Provincetown studio, 1960)

Exh. Cat., New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Painting in Provincetown: Milton Avery, Hans Hofmann, Jack Tworkov, 1998, illustrated in color (in progress) (with the artist in his Provincetown studio, 1960) (on the back cover)

Exh. Cat., Livorno, Galleria Peccolo, Hans Hofmann. Opere da una collezione (dipinti su carta 1959-1962), 1999, n.p., illustrated (in progress) (with the artist in his Provincetown studio, 1960)

James Yohe, ed., Hans Hofmann, New York, 2002, p. 34; p. 201, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Musée Départemental Matisse Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Ils ont regardé Matisse: une réception abstraite, États-Unis/Europe, 1948-1968, 2009, p. 129, illustrated in color (in progress) (with the artist in his Provincetown studio, 1960)

Suzi Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. III, Surrey, 2014, no. P1281, p. 82, illustrated in color